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  • Table Lands

    Food in Children's Literature

    by Kara K. Keeling, Scott T. Pollard ...
    Series series Children's Literature Association Series
    Food is a signifier of power for both adults and children, a sign of both inclusion and exclusion and of conformity and resistance. Many academic disciplines—from sociology to literary studies—have studied food and its function as a complex social discourse, and the wide variety of approaches to the topic provides multidisciplinary frames for understanding the construction and uses of food in all ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • English Book Collectors

    Enriched edition. Exploring the English Bibliophile's Legacy

    by William Younger Fletcher, Scott Berry ...
    William Younger Fletcher's "English Book Collectors" provides an insightful exploration of the rich tapestry of book collecting in England, chronicling the lives and tastes of notable bibliophiles from the 16th century to the early 20th century. Fletcher's narrative is imbued with a meticulous scholarly style, interspersed with anecdotal observations that render the book both informative and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don Quixote

    The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero

    by Eduardo Urbina, Bruce R. Burningham, Emilio Martínez Mata, Ricardo Castells, Rachel Schmidt, Stephen Hessel, S. Alleyn Smythe, J. A. Garrido Ardila, Victor Fet, Steven Ritz-Barr, Fernando González Moreno, Tatevik Gyulamiryan, William Childers, Margarita Marinova, Scott Pollard, Jonathan Wade, Roy H. Williams ...
    This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature

    Edited by Kara K. Keeling, Scott T. Pollard ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Following the lead of historians like Mark Kurlansky, Jeffrey Pilcher and Massimo Montanari, who use food as a fundamental node for understanding history, the essays in this volume present food as a multivalent signifier in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Don Quixote

    A Dramatic Adaptation

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Margarita Marinova ...
    Series Book 29 - Texts and Translations
    When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov's stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule. The author, whose novel The Master and Margarita would eventually bring him world renown, achieved this sleight of hand through a deft interpretation of Cervantes's knight. Bulgakov's Don Quixote fits comfortably into the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

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  • Elizabeth Woodville

    Mother of the Princes in the Tower

    by David Baldwin ...
    Elizabeth Woodville is undoubtedly a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress; as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes and a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories. She has been alternatively championed and vilified by her contemporaries and five centuries of historians, dramatists and novelists, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Richard III - The Young King To Be

    The Young King to be

    by Josephine Wilkinson ...
    Richard III is a paradox - the most hated of English kings, yet the most beloved, a deeply pious man, yet materialistic to the point of obsession, puritan, yet the father of at least two illegitimate children. This new biography concentrates on the much neglected early part of Richards life - from his birth in 1452 as a cadet of the House of York to his marriage to the beautiful Anne Neville - and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Pepyss London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Samuel Pepyss London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought the reopening of the theatres, with women appearing on the stage for the first time, and the period saw the development of English opera and the first public concerts. Pepys lived through a time of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Lady Jane Grey

    A Tudor Mystery

    by Eric Ives ...
    Lady Jane Grey, is one of the most elusive and tragic characters in English history.In July 1553 the death of the childless Edward VI threw the Tudor dynasty into crisis. On Edward's instructions his cousin Jane Grey was proclaimed queen, only to be ousted 13 days later by his illegitimate half sister Mary and later beheaded. In this radical reassessment, Eric Ives rejects traditional portraits of ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Elizabeth of York

    A Tudor Queen and Her World

    by Alison Weir ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BETSELLER • A poignant, suspenseful, and sometimes tragic biography of Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor queen and mother of Henry VIII, from the renowned author hailed as “the finest historian of English monarchical succession writing” (The Boston Globe)“[Weir] is a meticulous scholar. . . . [She] sincerely admires her subject, doing honor to an almost forgotten queen.”—The New ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series

    The Survival of Richard of York

    by David Baldwin ...
    Series series Classic Histories Series
    Did Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes on the Tower, survive his imprisonment? In this revealing new book medieval historian David Baldwin presents an original and intriguing scenario.On 27 December 1550 an old man named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent. He had spent much of his life working as a bricklayer at St John's Abbey, Colchester, but, unusually for a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Richard III

    England's Most Controversial King

    by Chris Skidmore ...
    "A bold and fresh new biography of one of the most enduringly fascinating monarchs . . . steeped in the latest research and majestically narrated." —Dan Jones, award-winning historian and New York Times– bestselling author of The PlantagenetsFrom acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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